Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell

  • 5 stars across 13 books
Katherine Rundell-tightrope walker, cartwheeler, academic, and author-was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there. Her second, Rooftoppers (Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Prize  and the CILIP Carnegie Medal), was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls. She is currently working on her doctorate alongside an adult novel. She lives in Oxford, UK.

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25th February 2021

Skysteppers: World Book Day 2021

High above the streets of Paris live the rooftoppers, a secret gang of children who eat, sleep and tumble amongst the ch... MoreSkysteppers: World Book Day 2021

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6th January 2011

The Girl Savage

Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend,... MoreThe Girl Savage

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